( updated ) Meet the A-Z Challenge 2016 drop-out ! I have to say that I admire the regulars bloggers that made a routine of blogging everyday. Thank you all for your encouragement and fellowship. You are great A- Z challengers. If I post once a month, I will have met my own blogging goal.
A-Z Challenge
This will be a new cup of tea for me to participate in the A to Z Blog Challenge. More about it in this LINK. As I am genealogy researcher, I will be blogging in the genealogy genre but I have not picked a theme yet. Fellow GOON and genealogist, Roz, gives an excellant example on how this is done. Look out ! Roz has been doing the challenge for five years which I think is incredibly awesome !
Roz posted the A to Z Challenge schedule on her opening post. How nice, we get Sundays off.
I am already two days behind because I could not get my old Microsoft WRITER LIVE to work on my ancient laptop. Dear Carole and Jana pointed me in the right direction to find a substitute which is OPEN LIVE WRITER.
My father was a sportswriter. I have poets, history journalists and wordsmiths running in my family veins. However, I am not a writer at all but I want to share things I find so we will see how this challenge will challenge, albeit frustrate, me.
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I was looking to see what genealogists are jumping into this challenge so I collected a handful doing the challenge.I may not have them all listed but will add them as I go.
Naturally, we start off with Roz at GenWestUK
Jill Ball is doing her One Name Study with the A-Z challenge.
I was totally blown away by the research of Kristin Cleage Her theme is writing about the descendants of enslaved people in the USA who were born free.
Stephanie Lincecum's Southern Graves blog
Dianne Nolin from “Beyond the BMD” started a whole new blog called “The Genealogy Challenge” for her A- Z challenge.
Pauline Cass, Your Roots Are Showing Dearie!, Wendy does a charming post on the letter B for baby stuff and there are many creative ones out there. There is also an A-Z Challenge Facebook page for other links.
Thanks so much for stopping by and mentioning Southern Graves, Magda. This is my first challenge, too -- luck to us both!
ReplyDeleteHopefully, you and I will have beginning's luck, Stephanie ! I am already trailing behind.
DeleteWell jump in! My first year I was late discovering A-Z so I posted 2 letters together.
ReplyDeleteWendy
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Thanks for popping in, Wendy. Your blog is so pretty and rich in images. This will be fun ( I hope ).
DeleteMy first challenge too! Thanks for the visit and mention. Glad to have the company.
ReplyDeleteOf the genealogy bloggers doing the challenge everyone's is so different I'm having just as much fun reading them as writing them.
My Genealogy Challenges
Dianne, I have noticed that everyone has a different approach which is actually sort of relaxing. Thanks for popping in.
DeleteI hope you get your A and B posts up before C on Monday! Thank you for the kind words about my challenge. It is quite challenging. Finding Eliza
ReplyDeleteLol Kristin.....I am almost catching up ! Thanks for reminding me (-:
DeleteI look forward to reading some of your posts!
ReplyDeleteSharon, you are such an optimist. I am looking forward to reading my posts too ( hoping they materialize magically out of thin air !).
DeleteMagda - Sorry to read that you dropped out of the A to Z. It is definitely a challenge. Other bloggers seem to have enough interesting family stories to keep it going but I struggle for topics for many of the letters.
ReplyDeleteAnd thanks for your comments on my Roots & Stuff blog.
Mary